Numbers 9:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ and those men said to him, “We are defiled for the being of a man. Why are we withheld from bringing near the offering of יהוה  at its appointed time among the children of Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ and those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Those men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?

Common English Bible

⁷ These persons said to him, “Although we are unclean from contact with a human corpse, why must we be prohibited from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time with the rest of the Israelites?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ said to them: "We are unclean because of the life of a man. Why have we been cheated, in that we are not permitted to offer, at its proper time, the oblation to the Lord among the sons of Israel?"

Numbers 9:7 Cross References

Exodus 12:27

then you shall say, ‘It is the Passover slaughtering of יהוה, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 9:2

“Now, let the children of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 9:6

But there were men who were defiled for a being of a man, so that they were not able to perform the Passover on that day. So they came before Mosheh and Aharon that day,

Numbers 9:8

And Mosheh said to them, “Wait, let me hear what יהוה  commands concerning you.”

Deuteronomy 16:2

“And you shall slaughter the Passover to יהוה  your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where יהוה  chooses to put His Name.